July 23, 2012

The
University of Kentucky Political Ecology Working Group (PEWG) is pleased
to announce our new "Notes from the Field" series. A mix of grad
student and faculty, regular and one-time contributors will be sharing
their experiences doing political ecology. They'll write up,
audio/visually record, draw, etc. brief and more extended reflections on
methodological, topical, and theoretical issues they are confronting.
For us, the field is what you make it out to be - you don't have to have
your hip waders on to be in the field. The idea is more: how is your
research going? What's a funny story about it? What's a telling story
from it? We hope to provide political ecologists a platform for
beginning to think through their research and to connect with others who
find themselves in similar situations.In
this inaugural edition of "Notes" we feature writings from UKPEWGers. We
begin by hearing from geographers who share how they do research with
communities at the center of often controversial productions of
socionature...